On Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 12:54:55 PM UTC-4, Eric Greenwell wrote:
I don't trust the heat sensor on the right side of the engine bay to activate soon
enough to land safely, especially for fires caused by the bearings of the lower
propeller belt drive. It'd be easy to install a small video camera at the front of
the engine bay, and run the wires to a small display in the cockpit where it's
easily seen. This could be used on gas power and FES (for the battery compartment)
gliders. Has anyone tried this?

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That's an intriguing idea. How would you monitor the video feed? Would it be part of your active scan during takeoff?

You might do better with a FIR camera than an EO one. I'm just guessing here, but it's probably easier to do background subtraction to highlight heat changes than to see smoke in a very well-ventilated compartment.